Abstract: A fluid state detection sensor accurately detects a fluid state by suppressing the deterioration of a conductivity measurement accuracy due to its characteristics. The sensor includes an electrode section configured by a pair of electrodes arranged opposite each other, a conductivity acquisition unit detecting a resistance value from an inter-electrode voltage value acquired through the electrode section and acquiring a fluid conductivity, a controller executing entire sensor's processing according to a control program stored in ROM etc.

Abstract: A fluid state detection sensor includes: an electrical conductivity calculation unit having an electrical conductivity calculation part configured to calculate an electrical conductivity of a fluid from a voltage value acquired in a first voltage acquisition part; and a relative dielectric constant calculation unit having a relative dielectric constant calculation part configured to calculate a relative dielectric constant of the fluid from a voltage value acquired in a second voltage acquisition part, wherein the first voltage acquisition part acquires an inter-electrode voltage value after a predetermined time period after a switching part above a connection target of a pair of electrodes to the electrical conductivity calculation unit, and the second voltage acquisition part acquires the inter-electrode voltage value after the predetermined time period after the switching part switched the connection target of the pair of electrodes to the relative dielectric constant calculation unit.

Abstract: A liquid state detection sensor includes: an electrode part, the electrode part having a pair of electrodes provided so as to be opposed to each other; a voltage value acquisition time period setting unit configured to set a voltage value acquisition time period, the voltage value acquisition time period being a length of a time period during which an inter-electrode voltage value of the pair of electrodes of the electrode part is acquired; a voltage value acquisition unit configured to acquire the inter-electrode voltage value in the voltage value acquisition time period; and an electrical conductivity calculation unit configured to calculate an electrical conductivity of the liquid on the basis of, among the inter-electrode voltage value acquired by the voltage value acquisition unit, the inter-electrode voltage value acquired after a predetermined time period has elapsed since a start of the voltage value acquisition time period.

Abstract: A power storage system includes: a stationary power storage device configured to supply electric power to an electrical load; a control device configured to receive supply of electric power from each of the power storage device and another power source; a relay located between the power storage device and the control device and between the power storage device and the electrical load, but not between the control device and the power source; and an input device configured to accept input from a user. When a connection request is input to the input device while the relay is in a disconnected state, the control device brings the relay into a connected state.

Abstract: An information processing method includes: reading a layer structure and parameters of layers from each of models of two neural networks; and determining a degree of matching between the models of the two neural networks, by comparing layers, of the respective models of the two neural networks, that are configured as a graph-like form in respective hidden layers, in order from an input layer using breadth first search or depth first search, based on similarities between respective layers.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a weight setting unit configured to set a plurality of weights of a selection layer selected from a plurality of layers of a first neural network as a plurality of weights of a second neural network; a classification unit configured to classify each of the weights of the selection layer into a first group or a second group; a first determination unit configured to determine a first gradient for each weight of the first neural network, based on first training data; a second determination unit configured to determine a second gradient for weights belonging to the first group based on second training data; and an updating unit configured to update the weights belonging to the first group based on the first gradient and the second gradient, and updating the other weights based on the first gradient.

Abstract: A resin film-laminated metal sheet includes a metal sheet and thermoplastic resin films that are fused to both surfaces of the metal sheet, the metal sheet is a steel sheet having a thickness of 0.08 mm or more or an aluminum sheet having a thickness of 0.15 mm or more, and, when a surface of the thermoplastic resin film opposite to a surface that is fused to the metal sheet is defined as a first surface, the surface tension on the first surface in at least one of the thermoplastic resin films is 50 mN/m or less, the surface tension on the surface that is fused to the metal sheet is 36 mN/m or more, and the amount of a wax attached to the first surface is more than 0 mg/m2 and 5.00 mg/m2 or less.

Abstract: Provided are a thermosetting resin composition having especially good compatibility and having dielectric properties (low dielectric constant and low dielectric dissipation factor) in a high frequency range, high adhesion to conductor, excellent heat resistance, high glass transition temperature, low thermal expansion coefficient and high flame retardancy, and a prepreg, a laminate and a multilayer printed wiring board using the resin composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a resin composition comprising a maleimide compound having a saturated or unsaturated divalent hydrocarbon group and a divalent group having at least two imido bonds; and a catalyst comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of an imidazole compound, a phosphorus compound, an azo compound and an organic peroxide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a resin composition containing a compound having a maleimido group, a divalent group having at least two imido bonds and a saturated or unsaturated divalent hydrocarbon group.

Abstract: A cash processing system capable of preventing erroneous operations by an operator during cash transfer processing and enabling the cash transfer to be executed efficiently. This system comprises a first cash processing machine for performing an outgoing cash transfer, a second cash processing machine for performing an incoming cash transfer, and a portable terminal. The portable terminal is equipped with a display unit, an operation unit for receiving input of cash transfer information, including cash information, and a communication processing unit. Upon receiving outgoing cash transfer information included in the cash transfer information from the portable terminal, the first cash processing machine pays out cash based on the outgoing cash transfer information. Upon receiving incoming cash transfer information included in the cash transfer information from the portable terminal, the second cash processing machine receives cash based on the incoming cash transfer information.

Abstract: An isosurface mesh M is generated by extracting voxels having a certain CT value from volume data obtained by X-ray CT. A gradient vector g of a CT value is calculated at each vertex p of the isosurface mesh M. A plurality of sample points S are generated in positive and negative directions of the calculated gradient vector g. Gradient norms N of CT values at the respective generated sample points S are calculated. The vertex p of the isosurface mesh is moved and corrected to a sample point Sm having the maximum norm Nm calculated.

Abstract: Provided are a resin composition having especially good compatibility and having dielectric properties (low dielectric constant and low dielectric dissipation factor) in a high frequency range, high adhesion to conductor, excellent heat resistance, high glass transition temperature, low thermal expansion coefficient and high flame retardancy, and a prepreg, a laminate and a multilayer printed wiring board using the resin composition. Specifically, the resin composition contains (A) a polyphenylene ether derivative having an N-substituted maleimide structure-containing group and a structural unit represented by the following general formula (I) in one molecule, (B) at least one thermosetting resin selected from the group consisting of epoxy resins, cyanate resins and maleimide compounds, and (C) a styrenic thermoplastic elastomer: wherein R1 each independently represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, or a halogen atom, and x represents an integer of 0 to 4.

Abstract: In a customer transaction system, when a customer terminal device transmits a withdrawal transaction request to a management device, the management device performs a withdrawal transaction request to a financial system server and deducts a withdrawal amount from an account balance. The management device sets, on an automatic teller machine, a withdrawal limit based on the withdrawal amount, generates a withdrawal code and notifies a customer terminal device of the withdrawal code. When the customer terminal device with the withdrawal code being displayed on a display unit is held over the automatic teller machine, the automatic teller machine reads the withdrawal code, makes a withdrawal execution request to the management device, and performs withdrawal based on the withdrawal limit upon receiving withdrawal approval from the management device.

Abstract: The disposable cleaning auxiliary tool comprises a flexible sheet-like non-liquid-permeable material being made to have a bottom portion, a duct portion arranged so as to extend further therebeyond from a location serving as soiled water outlet provided at an outer periphery of said bottom portion, a pouch-like water-receiving portion arranged at a surface at one side or surfaces at both sides of an extended tip of said duct portion, a cylindrical gas filled portion arranged at an outer peripheral portion other than the location serving as soiled water outlet at said bottom portion, and a gas filling inlet for filling said cylindrical gas filled portion, and is capable of being folded and stored when the cylindrical gas filled portion is not filled with gas, a concavity formed when the body of the bedridden individual pushes downward serves as a reservoir, another concavity formed serves as a drainage path.

Abstract: Provided is a multilayered transmission line plate including one pair of ground layers, a differential wiring layer disposed between one ground layer and the other ground layer of the one pair of ground layers, a first insulating portion disposed between the differential wiring layer and the one ground layer, and a second insulating portion disposed between the differential wiring layer and the other ground layer, wherein the first insulating portion has a resin layer, the first insulating portion or the second insulating portion has a fiber base material layer including a fiber base material, and a thickness of the first insulating portion is equal to or thinner than a thickness of the second insulating portion.

Abstract: A material shape simulation apparatus for simulating deformation of a three-dimensional woven fiber material is provided and includes: an orientation vector field generation unit generating a model shape orientation vector field on three-dimensional meshes of a model shape of a three-dimensional woven fiber material obtained by stacking sheets of two-dimensional woven fabric made of X-yarn and Y-yarn and binding them with Z-yarn; a parameterization unit that searches for a gradient vector for calculating a material shape orientation vector field, being an orientation vector field of a material shape before deformation of the model shape, from the model shape orientation vector field; and an orientation vector updating unit that updates the model shape orientation vector field by applying a condition of preserving a volume between the model shape orientation vector field and the material shape orientation vector field and a condition that neither the X-yarn nor the Y-yarn expands or contracts.

Abstract: An isosurface mesh M is generated by extracting voxels having a certain CT value from volume data obtained by X-ray CT. A gradient vector g of a CT value is calculated at each vertex p of the isosurface mesh M. A plurality of sample points S are generated in positive and negative directions of the calculated gradient vector g. Gradient norms N of CT values at the respective generated sample points S are calculated. The vertex p of the isosurface mesh is moved and corrected to a sample point Sm having the maximum norm Nm calculated.

Abstract: A design support apparatus supporting designing of a product which uses a fiber material includes a processor that creates a predicted shape model by predicting a shape of the product before a deformation processing. The processor: creates a 3-dimensional shape model of the product; creates curved shape models by separating the 3-dimensional shape model into two or more fiber layers; sets a correspondence relationship between the curved shape models; creates an orientation vector field in the curved shape models; and predicts the shape of the product before the deformation processing by developing the curved shape models on a flat surface based on the correspondence relationship between the curved shape models and the orientation vector field in the curved shape models, and creates the predicted shape model based on the predicted shape.